Have you ever had something make you take notice but then once you realized what you are looking at, you disregarded it, only to find later that the information actually applied to you?
Take for example my wedding dress. When I first got engaged, years ago, I would flip through wedding magazines trying on dresses in my mind, picturing how they would look on me. I remember running across one dress, thinking to myself, “Wow! That’s really pretty… on the right person…” and then continued flipping pages. Later, after I purchased my dress, I found myself flipping through the same magazine, again stopping on the same page. I looked at the picture and thought, “Wow. That’s a pretty dress.” and then started laughing. That was a pretty dress. That was my dress. The dress I bought. Funny, I didn’t even remember the dress when I went out shopping because I had disregarded it so quickly as something that I “couldn’t wear”. Yet here I was, flipping through the bridal magazine, stopping on the same page and realizing that was the dress I ended up buying. Apparently I shouldn’t have disregarded it so quickly!
Well, a similar thing has happened again. A number of months ago while hanging out in Egg|Plant I found myself perusing their magazines. I grabbed a copy of Urban Farm magazine. I kind of scoffed at the concept of an Urban Farm. I was thinking about how people keep coming up with these names, titles, buckets for everything. New names for the same stuff. “Urban Farm is just a new name for gardening”, I thought to myself, but I bought the magazine anyway “because it had some cool articles”. A couple of months later I found myself back at Egg|Plant buying yet another copy of the magazine, still not thinking of myself as an “Urban Farmer”. Well, sometimes life has a funny way of working out. This morning, as I awoke to a white dusting of snow in the yard and heard reports of icy roads, I stood under the warm water of the shower trying to calm my nerves for my interview at the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) to get into the Urban Farming Certification program. If someone had told me a year ago that I’d be doing this, I would have laughed. Yet today, as I made my way over to the interview, on icy roads, I could hardly contain my excitement.
The interview went great and yes, I was accepted into the program. (Woo hoo!) I think it will be a perfect fit for me and for what I want to do going forward. Plus, the people I met with were great! The next step is registration. Then the holidays and then I’ll be off and running. I’m so excited to get started! Actually, the only way I could be any more excited is if it started tomorrow! But alas, I must wait until January, January 5th to be exact. So, while some of you may be dreaming of a white Christmas and Jack Frost nipping at your nose, I’ll be dreaming of the new year and my future Urban Farm.
Kate
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